How does one get access to a morgue? Anyway, it's an awesome shot and incredibly disturbing. It's probably the least marketable photo I've seen with so much effort taken to capture it (or so it seems).
wow, really unsettling, but you cannot help but look at this from the inevitability that will confront all of us some point. The way that there is tension shown on one of the subjects legs that are hanging off the table but still straight because of rigormortis, is very unnerving. It's like you expect the corpse to rotate and get up! Great presentation on a chilling and sensitive subject.
I have to ask is the typical response of "wow", "impressive","hardcore" etc. is what you are seeking from your photos. Have you sought permission from relatives or family to photograph their kin naked and open to the gaze of well off people surfing the net for amusement. These are, I imagine, poor people being denied the last vestige of respect for the purpose of publishing a book.
Perhaps you might expand on your reasons for taking these photos.
Cheers
Vincent(TEX)
These are questions which constantly occur to me when I view photos of people in a state that I wish would never occur to me. I do believe in the dignity of people even in death.
what a photo! i am not sure i could or would have taken the shot. i once shot my aunt who had died. it was at the funeral. my cousin asked me to stop. she said my aunt did not want that....i am sure my aunt would not/did not care if i snapped the photo.
i am not sure i agree with tex regarding getting permission. i do not think it does anything to their dignity either....
Vincent, "wow", "impresive", "hardcore" aren't the responses I seek, and I don't want to "amuse" neither. The highest number of people I photographed in morgues are unclaimed. The dimention I put more attention when I compose the frames is to preserve the dignity of the photographed bodies, I'm looking after beauty in the dead, if I don't get it then I'm falling. Posting here give me the oportunity to know the opinion of my peers, to perceive if the effort worth the results.
I also believe in the dignity of people, mostly in death.